Congregation of Saint Bathilde
The Congregation of Saint Bathilde (French: Bénédictines de Sainte-Bathilde or Bénédictines de Vanves ) is a congregation of French Benedictine Sisters named after Saint Bathilde of Ascania .
history
The Congregation of Saint Bathilde goes back to the establishment of a community of sisters by Marguerite Waddington-Delmas (religious name: Bénédicte ). It was founded in Paris in 1921, made official in 1926. Since 1985 the congregation has been associated with the congregation of Subiaco and Montecassino . It has been an institute under papal law since 1987 .
The congregation currently has around 150 sisters in 9 houses (in France, Madagascar , Vietnam and Benin ). The parent company is in Vanves .
Foundations of monasteries
- 1921: First convent in the Rue de Ségur in Paris, 1928 move to Vanves in the Sainte-Bathilde convent
- 1934: Ambositra in Madagascar
- 1955: Mananjary
- 1975: Joffreville in the Diana region
- 1954: Buôn Ma Thuột in Vietnam, moved to Thu-Duc near Saigon in 1967
- 2000: Lôc-Nam, near Đà Lạt
- 1956: Chemillé (merged with the last sisters of Fontevraud ), moved to Martigné-Briand in 1961 in the Notre-Dame de Compassion monastery
- 1966: Toffo in the Atlantique department in Benin
- 1968: Saint-Thierry Priory
Web links
- Information on the Congregation of Saint Bathilde in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Literature by and about the Congregation of Saint Bathilde in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Page of the Congregation of Saint Bathilde in the OSB Atlas
- Congregation website, French